[Mac OS X TeX] Re: emacs 21.1

[Enrico Franconi]

On February 22, Joshua S. Hodas writes:
> Could you post the code of the core of this script (the part that
> handles the drag and drop) in the meantime? I'd just like to see how
> the unix/applescript integration is handled in a simple code
> example.  That will be enough to get me started.

--- This makes use of the 'OSX PowerAddOns Lite.osax' scripting addition

on open names
 set file_list to ""
 repeat with filename in names
  set file_list to file_list & "\"" & convert_filepath(filename) & "\" "
 end repeat
 try
  Shell "tcsh -c '/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs -l ~/.emacs-21-dist " & file_list & " &';kill -9 " & (Get My PID)
 on error
  quit
 end try
end open

on run
 try
  Shell "tcsh -c '/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs -l ~/.emacs-21-dist &';kill -9 " & (Get My PID)
 on error
  quit
 end try
end run

on convert_filepath(this_filepath)
 set this_filepath to this_filepath as string
 set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ":"
 set the path_segments to every text item of this_filepath
 set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "/"
 set this_filepath to "/" & (the path_segments as string)
 set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
 return this_filepath
end convert_filepath


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